Harvard's College Bowl team won three straight matches last night at William Paterson College in New Jersey to become the first team in the country to qualify for the national finals in February.

The team soundly rousted Yale, 315 to 175. Harvard's brains were uneasy at the half, behind by 45 points, but came back in a brilliant finish.

The battle against Temple University was close--80 to 85 at halftime, with a final difference of only 60 points at 220 to 160.

The Crimson's grey cells topped off the evening with an overwhelming 410 to 65 victory over Texas A&M.

Team members Paul Bernstein '81, Mark Zupan '81, Steven Kaplan '81 and Stephen Kamin, a first-year Medical School student, have competed together for three years. They placed second nationally in 1979, losing only in the quarter-finals last year.